Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein)
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586. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the funding allocated towards the repair and refurbishment of local authority housing in budgets 2016 to 2019; the amount allocated specifically towards energy retrofit works; the amount spent by each local authority on energy retrofit works for local authority housing stock in each of the years 2016 to 2018; if funds allocated to local authorities for energy retrofit were unspent; and if so, the amount. [3717/19]

Eoghan Murphy (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael)
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Section 58 of the Housing Act 1966, provides that the management and maintenance of local authority housing stock is a matter for each individual local authority. This includes maintenance programmes and carrying out of responsive repairs and pre-letting repairs.

However, my Department is committed to supporting local authorities in terms of various targeted stock upgrade programmes, including large-scale urban regeneration programmes, support for the return of vacant units to productive use, the Energy Retrofitting Programme and adaptations and extensions for people with disability in social homes.

Regarding the Energy Retrofitting Programme, the funding available in the 3 years in question was €30m in 2016, €22m in 2017 and €25m in 2018 . The funding drawn down by each local authority for 2016-2018 is set out in the following table.

Where funding allocated against the EE Programme was not drawn down directly against this programme, it was in the main expended on the refurbishment of vacant properties, including the energy retrofitting works that are also part of that programme.